as recently as february 26 and 27, a major track renewal program that we had to do at church and dubose. that is ongoing work we are doing at other lines, and this spring, we begin the major work to totally replace the intersection and improve traffic flow for both the n and j lines entering into the tunnel. at the same time, while we're operating this system and carrying a number of people everyday, we have a real big -- rehabilitation program to deal with 80% of the most problematic systems on our rail cars. our fleet is 25 years of age in some cases and passed its useful life, but we have a program that has been funded by other revenues in the organization to help rebuild those cars. we wish we could do it a whole lot faster, but the problem is if you are carrying the number of people we have every day, we can ill afford to take too many cars out of service to deal with that issue. i touched earlier on the taxi operations. one of the things that we are responsible for and have been working closely with supervisor wiener on is increasing the number of taxis available, primarily in the

lou dubose who is the editor "washington spectator" and had a long career in "weekly" and "long form journalism" he co-authored with molly ivins, and like professor kaufman, he has frequently written about the political career of republican political figures, although i believe with somewhere less admiration than professor kaufman has for his subjects. >> correct. >> and richard mack in the yellow shirt there has had a long and honored career in law enforcement, including a sheriff of graham county, arizona for a decade. he was plaintiff in a landmark case before the united states supreme court challenging the constitutionality of the brady bill on state sovereignty grounds, and he's written several books about his life and works. he's a frequent speaker at tea party events, but he assures me he understands this is not so much like one of those. [laughter] >> this is a cupcake. >> we will begin with terrence mcnally. thank you for being here today. >> thank you, mimi. i read the bios about the members. there's no way i know as much as they do. this is important, and one that i suspec

next lou dubose who i suspect has been wondering what his beloved hometown of boston would have been like if texas remained the old confederacy and permitted to secede. >> made me find out again. we have a governor who has advocated or come close to advocating secession. but the point i would like to start with a bit of housekeeping. to the guy with the gray hair who is standing in in the one down for me and i said this is where me go my friends, thought he was deep. [laughter] that was the extent of it. it was a senator gregg moment. my stance was wide. anyway, should you see him or should that rumor began romer began to circulate in the conference, he looks very much like someone else, thesis profile. his profile. [laughter] alright, starting from there, i can go nowhere but up. i am not going to take on terence on this or professor kaufman on the civil war. but, i would like to remark about something that terence said. you know, i spent half my time in washington d.c. and half my time in austin. in a weirdly gerrymandered congressional districts that makes me boat in san antonio.

next lou dubose who i suspect has been wondering what his beloved hometown of boston would have been like if texas remained the old confederacy and permitted to secede. >> made me find out again. we have a governor who has advoted or come close to advocating secession. but the point i would like to start with a bit of housekeeping. to the guy with the gray hair who is standing in in the one down for me and i said this is where me go my friends, thought he was deep. [laughter] that was the extent of it. it was a senator gregg moment. my stance was wide. anyway, should you see him or should that rumor began romer began to circulate in the conference, he looks very much like someone else, thesis profile. his profile. [laughter] alright, starting from there, i can g nowhere but up. i am not going to take on terence on this or professor kaufman the civil war. but, i would like to remark abousomething that terence said. yoknow, i spent half my time in washington d.c. and half my time in austin. in a weirdly gerrymandered congressional districts at makes me boat in san antonio. and, in aust

next lou dubose who i suspect has been wondering what his beloved hometown of boston would have been like if texas remained the old confederacy and permitted to secede. >> made me find out again. we have a governor who has advocated or come close to advocating secession. but the point i would like to start with a bit of housekeeping. to the guy with the gray hair who is standing in in the one down for me and i said this is where me go my friends, thought he was deep. [laughter] that was the extent of it. it was a senator gregg moment. my stance was wide. anyway, should you see him or should that rumor began romer began to circulate in the conference, he looks very much like someone else, thesis profile. his profile. [laughter] alright, starting from there, i can go nowhere but up. i am not going to take on terence on this or professor kaufman on the civil war. but, i would like to remark about something that terence said. you know, i spent half my time in washington d.c. and half my time in austin. in a weirdly gerrymandered congressional districts that makes me boat in san antonio.